In a development that could reshape how breeders approach one of the world’s most important cereal crops, researchers at the...

Three decades ago, cancer biologists embraced an elegant idea known as the sphingosine rheostat: a molecular dial inside tumor cells...

As the world’s population ages at an unprecedented pace, the demand for nurses who specialize in the care of older...

Chemists in India have reported a new solid acid catalyst that carries out one of organic chemistry’s oldest and most...

When cells adapt to new challenges, they often do so by reshuffling their genomes on a grand scale. A new...

A team of cybersecurity researchers has unveiled an artificial intelligence system that can take a stripped-down binary program, hunt for...

Cold is one of the most punishing stresses a grapevine can face. Frost snaps can devastate buds, canes, and even...

A systematic review published in Medical Oncology has pulled together the laboratory evidence behind one of oncology’s most tantalizing ideas:...

The machinery that turns a tragedy into a transplant is quietly breaking down under its own success. A new review...

In a result that could reshape how scientists build quantum materials, researchers have shown that something as ordinary as an...

Deep space is not a benign environment for living tissue. Beyond the protective shield of Earth’s magnetic field, astronauts are...

Quantum teleportation has long been one of the most striking demonstrations of quantum mechanics at work: an unknown quantum state...

High in the temperate Himalaya, between roughly 2750 and 3300 meters above sea level, the forest canopy changes in a...

When the FLAURA2 trial made headlines by showing that adding chemotherapy to the targeted drug osimertinib extended overall survival in...

For decades, children born with vascular malformations—tangled, malformed networks of blood vessels that can distort limbs, faces, and internal organs—have...

For decades, one of the most fundamental questions in metabolism research has been surprisingly difficult to answer directly: which cells...

Soil contaminated with toxic metals is one of the most stubborn environmental problems of our time. Lead, chromium, and uranium...

A protein best known for helping the oral bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis stick to surfaces in the mouth may have an...

Predicting how a patient’s tumor will respond to a particular drug remains one of the most stubborn problems in precision...

Solid-state batteries have long been heralded as the technology that will finally make electric vehicles safer, lighter, and capable of...